Thursday, August 15, 2019

Happy Feet Friday

Bassist Chubby Jackson and company light up the room with “Northwest Passage”. Other personnel: Howard McGhee – trumpet; Flip Phillips - tenor saxophone; Bill Harris – trombone; Ralph Burns – piano; Billy Bauer – guitar; Dave Tough – drums. From January, 1945. Howard McGhee was an influential bebop trumpeter whose solo on the clip below is a good introduction to his style. And, it's just flat-out awesome.



Bonus video! Here's a clip from the 1945 murder mystery, The Crimson Canary. It's a club scene featuring the music of Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax), Howard McGhee (trumpet), Sir Charles Thompson (piano ), Denzil Best (drums ), and Oscar Pettiford (bass ).

Man. Oscar Pettiford. Not only did he play great jazz base, he looked so cool doing it. Check him out.

4 comments:

Jonah said...

Dang. He died the day I was born.

Paco said...

Oscar Pettiford? Yeah, he died young, just shy of his 38th birthday, from what Wiki describes as a polio-like virus.

bruce said...

Jim Hoft is blaming woodstock for the world's ills.

Blame it on the boogie woogie maybe? Bad, bad, syncopated rhythms!

A bunch of kids gets out of the military and celebrates with a 3 days music festival and growing their hair long. Then cleaned up the place and went back to day jobs or college after. Some conspiracy. Santana were fantastic, and Crosby Stills Nash vocal harmonies. Everyone celebrates if they survive a war. IDF-returned kids travel overseas and let loose even now, I've met them in Sydney.

bruce said...

Now PJ Media is putting their 2 cents, this is going to be an annoying week. From the hyperbole of Rolling Stone writer wannabees to the John Birch paranoia on the other side, both got this wrong back then and want to revive the myths 50 years later.

A lot of kids together who wanted to have fun and meet girls (and vice versa). Also frustration at endless wars - a theme now universally acknowledged. Neither the greatest nor the worst thing which ever happened, just stuff you see all through history. Some good music, some just ok. Boomers were caught in the middle and often exploited, which is why we baulk at getting blamed for stuff we had no power over. And when we could vote we chose Reagan types. Except we were conned by the Clintons - old time snake oil tricksters in new guise.